The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) published Portaria 19.646 on 24 July, raising the maximum tariffs that the Brasília Juscelino Kubitschek airport concessionaire may charge for embarkation, connection, landing, parking, storage and handling services. Domestic passenger-service fees climb to R$ 34.55 per head, while the international rate jumps to R$ 74.78—an increase of roughly 8 % year-on-year, in line with Brazil’s consumer-price index. The new caps take legal effect immediately, with airlines allowed to reflect the changes in ticket prices after a mandatory 30-day notice period. Airlines operating at BSB—including LATAM, Gol and Azul—now face higher landing and parking costs (up to R$ 16,825 for wide-body aircraft over 300 tonnes), prompting analysts to predict a 1–2 % fare uptick on heavily travelled corporate routes such as Brasília–São Paulo and Brasília–Miami. The airport handled 14 million passengers in 2025 and is a critical hub for government and oil-and-gas traffic. For mobility budgets, the timing is uncomfortable: many companies are finalising 2027 travel frameworks and did not model a mid-year cost hike. Travel managers should revisit route deals with carriers and consider shifting some itineraries to São Paulo or Belo Horizonte to mitigate exposure. The adjustment is the first under ANAC’s new inflation-plus-X-factor formula, which allows reductions if service-quality targets are missed. If quality scores fall below 85 % in the next audit, the concessionaire will be forced to roll back part of the increase—an incentive for maintaining on-time performance and immigration wait times despite ongoing runway-expansion works. Beyond Brasília, industry groups expect similar tariff reviews for Confins (Belo Horizonte) and Galeão (Rio) later this quarter, signalling a broader uptick in Brazil’s airport cost base that could ripple across regional mobility planning.
Source: Portal ComexBR / Diário Oficial
